Past Event
The Whitechapel Gallery is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please contact access@whitechapelgallery.org if you would like to discuss a particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it.
– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
– This event takes place in Gallery 2 and the Zilkha Auditorium at Whitechapel Gallery, a ground floor space.
– This event has a dedicated and facilitated quiet space, however due to the lift being out of service it is only accessible by stairs.
– You do not require a ticket to attend this event, however if we reach capacity you may be refused entry.
– You are welcome to bring children to this event
– We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
– We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
– This event lasts approximately 7 hours. You are free to come and go over the duration of the event.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Join us in the Gallery and online for this special Whitechapel Radio Station (WRS) broadcast, in company of Theatrum Mundi’s PolyVocalCity cohort for an afternoon exploring social and environmental justice for Croydon.
Artist Verity Monroe will present a sonic live mixing of a collectively produced podcast by the PolyVocalCity participants and will be joined by Croydon based artists James Elsey, RESOLVE Collective, dot.i and poets Shaniqua Benjamin, Mhairi Potts-Wyatt, Zhanai Wallace as well as PolyVocalCity member Jacqueline Ennis-Cole and guest Jumana Abboud.
3 – 3.05 | Introduction by Lou-Atessa Marcellin
3.05 – 3.50 | let bygones be bygones…a performance by James Elsey
3.50 – 3.57 | Poetry reading by Shaniqua Benjamin
3.57 – 4.20 | Extract from Squidgy world sound piece. dot.i in collaboration with VIA (Visually impaired artists) + Intro by dot.i
4.20 – 4.24 | From Kyiv to Croydon by Dasha Podolsteva
4.25 – 4.35 | Poetry Reading by Mhairi Potts-Wyatt
4.40 – 4.50 | Poetry Reading by Zhanai Wallace
4.50 – 5.20 | Readings by Jacqueline Ennis-Cole and Jumana Abboud
5.20 – 6 | PolyVocalCity podcast live mix by Verity Monroe
